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French Court Rules to Extradite Alleged Rwanda Genocide Financier to UN Court

Lisa Bryant

   PARIS - A top French appeals court has refused to block the extradition
   of the alleged financier of Rwanda's 1994 genocide to a United Nations
   tribunal.

   The decision by France's Court of Cassation is a blow to Felicien
   Kabuga, 84, who was arrested at his Paris-area apartment in May after a
   quarter-century on the run.

   Kabuga's lawyers had appealed an earlier ruling that he should stand
   trial at a U.N. court based in Arusha, Tanzania. They said his health
   was poor and raised fears the U.N. court would be biased against him.

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